[SGVLUG] X11 gui programming - suggestions please

[Eric Gillingham]

I would recommend using GTK and glade to do the actual UI work. You get a nice little app with glade to drag and drop UI elements around however you like and then you just load the XML file that app writes in your program and connect callbacks to the UI elements.

- Eric

On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Robert Leyva wrote:

> Greets
> 
> I am working on a hobbyist project to generate a coded text file based on
> user input.
> 
> I am using C++, and MVC design pattern(s).
> 
> For the GUI (view the user will interact with) I am researching gtk,
> curses, and such, but never have used any of them before on a project.
> 
> Hoping my fellow SGVLUGers might have ideas/suggestions based on your
> experience doing GUI programming.
> 
> I dont' think I will need to draw graphics or images. At this stage I
> expect my GUI would just need to view/display/intake keyboard text.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> "Knowledge is Power" -- Sir Francis Bacon
> 
> Robert Leyva
> mrflash818 at geophile.net
> 
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